John Wayne survived Stalin's assassination order on his life by terrifying the KGB hitmen sent to take him out.

Russian historian Yuri Dmitriyev is serving 15-year sentence which human rights organisations say is politically motivated.

Culture / Books & the Arts / In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the ...

British schoolchildren preferred Joseph Stalin out of all the commanders of the Second World War. This was stated by a member ...

Published on this day in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" drew on Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's experiences as a ...

Ukraine must not accept a "Finlandization" deal struck following a previous invasion by Moscow 85 years ago, experts tell ...

Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

In 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned him to Moscow to work as the deputy to the chief of the Soviet secret police (NKVD). Within months the chief had disappeared and Beria had replaced him.

Dans L’humeur musicale, Pierre Solot vous parle de deux morts, survenues le même jour, le 5 mars 1953 : le décès de Joseph Staline, le "petit père des peuples", et celui de Sergueï ...

Human Rights advocate Luis Moreno Ocampo published a new blog post comparing political tactics being used by President Ilham ...